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AP - An activist group hoping to pressure the Roman Catholic church into dropping its long-standing prohibition on women in the priesthood is planning an ordination ceremony for three women in Boston. ...

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An activist group pressing the Roman Catholic church to drop its long-standing ban on women from the priesthood said it has ordained three women as priests and a fourth as a deacon. ...

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An activist group hoping to pressure the Roman Catholic church into dropping its prohibition of female priests says it ordained ... ...

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Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged hundreds of thousands of young Catholics to beat back a "spiritual desert" spreading through the modern world as he closed Catholic World Youth Day in Australia. ...

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Times Online Pope warns Catholic youth of 'spiritual desert' AFP - 1 hour ago SYDNEY (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged hundreds of thousands of young Catholics to beat back a "spiritual desert" spreading through the modern world as he closed Catholic World Youth Day in Australia. Video: Pope's visit challenged in Australia - 20 July 2008 AlJazeeraEnglish Pope says 'spiritual desert' is spreading Times Online Khaleej Times  - BBC News  - International Herald Tribune  - ABC Online all 5,166 news articles ...

Source: www.abc.net.au --- 6 days ago
A biblical drama was being played out on the streets of Sydney. Pilgrims for Catholic World Youth Day are once again crowding into the city, but today the young are witnessing a very old ritual. The Stations of the Cross re-enacts the final days of the life of Jesus. Pilgrims have taken part in the ritual since the 13th century, but it seems to be having a revival at this year's World Youth Day celebrations, as Paula Kruger reports. ...

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In articulating economic views in ways that are especially accessible to Catholics, Obama would discover that Catholic social thought provides Democrats with the linguistic clarity that their economic positions have lacked, writes The New Republic. ...

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Local woman is one of three to take part An activist group hoping to pressure the Roman Catholic church into dropping its long-standing prohibition on women in the priesthood is planning an ordination ceremony for three women in Boston. ...

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Some 300 Orange County worshippers are part of a massive Sunday Mass at World Youth Day celebration. ...

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Boston, the AP : “An activist group hoping to pressure the Roman Catholic church into dropping its long-standing prohibition barring women from the priesthood says it ordained three women on Sunday. Church officials did not recognize the ordination, and the Vatican has previously warned that women taking part in ordination ceremonies will be excommunicated.” I knew one of the first women to do this in Ohio in 2002. We went to the same church in Philadelphia. She was a bit of an, ahem, eccentric. She clearly had “issues” beyond the women priest stuff. My wife and I saw her recently at Mass. Now excommunicated, she was in the pews, but mimmicked everything the priest did during Mass. I will guess these Boston womyn are not much different. ...

Source: www.politics.ie --- 5 days ago
by dubsthcentralboy (Posted Yesterday, 9:14 pm) In Australia, where hundreds of thousands of young Catholics are attending World Youth Day, militant gay activists have attacked Catholic teenagers and pelted them with condoms. Chanting "Pope go homo, gay is great" and singing "Pope is wrong, put a condom on", the protesters threw condoms at the pilgrims, who were making their way to Randwick racecourse for an overnight prayer vigil culminating in the closing Mass. A drag queen dressed in pink going under the moniker "Pope Alice" also paraded before the pilgrims, while other protesters wore T-shirts with slogans such as "Thank God I'm an atheist" and "Bless me father for I am a homo". According to medial reports, the pilgrims appeared unfazed by the protest, with some making peace signs as they passed by. What disgusting behaviour from these gay people. They may have legitimate concerns about the Catholic Church's teaching. However, assaulting teeangers in this fashion is disgusting and should be condemned by all right-thinking people. Will it be? href="http://www.politics.ie/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=38778"> ...

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In an act of defiance, a group of female Roman Catholic priests were ordained in Boston. Kent Shocknek reports. ...

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Sometimes, Freud told us, a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes, though, it’s a cracker. Apparently, there’s a huge wave (that’s media speak for at least two similar incidents) of people using Roman Catholic communion wafers for something other than their intended spiritual purpose. Earlier this month, it a University of Central Florida student: Webster Cook says that, instead... ...

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Three Catholic women were ordained as priests in a Back Bay neighborhood church Sunday, despite the Vatican's admonition that the trio would be excommunicated if they did so. ...

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Benedict made the announcement today at the final Mass of the current edition of World Youth Day being held in Sydney, Australia. The 81-year-old pontiff said the next World Youth Day would take place... ...

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An activist group hoping to pressure the Catholic Church into dropping its long-standing prohibition of female priests says it has ordained three American women. ...

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An activist group hoping to pressure the Roman Catholic church into dropping its long-standing prohibition barring women from the priesthood says it ordained three women on Sunday.Church officials did... ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — After resisting the idea for more than three decades, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis has ordained its first class of deacons, taking some pressure off overworked priests and giving a new role to men who keep one foot in the church and the other in the outside world. ...